A recipe for a tart, tangy cranberry sauce, balanced with wintery spices and naturally sweetened with dates.

Perfect alongside roast veggies, Thanksgiving dinner, swirled into dips, and even on top of winter porridge or Christmas Day pancakes.

Made from 5 ingredients, this sauce is ready after 15 minutes. Flavoured with fresh orange juice, dates, cardamom and star anise – my secret ingredients– it beats store bought sauces.

Ingredients in this Cranberry sauce

• Cranberries: Fresh or frozen
• Dates: to naturally sweeten
• Cardamom: To add a nice warmth to the sauce
• Cinnamon Sticks: aka THE spice of winter
• Fresh orange juice: Freshly squeezed! Don’t use bottled, it won’t be as good.
• Star anise: My secret ingredient
• Cloves: All you need is a pinch!
• Nutmeg: What cranberry sauce would be complete without it?!
• Fresh Ginger: To add a little fire to the sauce

A better-for-you version of the classic cranberry sauce

Cranberry sauce is one of those classic sauces that is on everyones table at Christmas or Thanksgiving, but store bought versions are full of sugar and stabilisers, preservatives. YUCK!

This one only takes about 20 minutes to make, it fills the house with the smell of Christmas and freezes really well too!

How to store Cranberry sauce:

This sauce freezes really well, I have used cranberry sauce about 6 months after I made it!

• Freeze in ice-cube trays for individual portions – perfect for porridge!
• Freeze in re-usable silicone bags.